Item No. 2: After a series of failed efforts to sell it, GM announced that its Hummer brand would be wound down. Hummer had a different problem with bigness than Toyota has. It wasn t that its production volumes were too high. In 2008 only 2,710 Hummers were sold. Rather, the outsize Hummer was simply too big too inefficient, too out of step with the times to succeed in a marketplace in which oil spiked to $150 per barrel and seems to have settled at a plateau above $70 a barrel. As the economy tanked, energy prices rose, and the spirit of the time shifted in favor of conservation, the gas-guzzling Hummer faced a double whammy : consumers had difficulty affording the vehicle s high list price as well as difficulty affording its high operating price.
Size does matter when it comes to auto production. But not always in the way manufacturers think.
47. The example of Henry Ford s assembly line suggests that the success in the auto industry was built on_____________________
48. According to the author, Toyota s fast growth in recent years was attributed to_____________________
49. CEO Akio Toyoda seemed to admit that Toyota betrayed its tradition of putting_____________________at top priority.
50. According to the passage, GM decided to gradually bring its Hummer brand to an end because of_____________________
51. According to the passage, whether purchasing or operating a Hummer, consumers found it hard to_______________________
【汽车行业处于不断发展壮大的局面】相关文章:
★ 六级经典的阅读4
★ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)(一)
最新
2016-10-18
2016-10-11
2016-10-11
2016-10-08
2016-09-30
2016-09-30